Current Events

Home Smart Home

8. March – 21. April 2024
Solo Show, Kunstverein Rotenburg, Rotenburg

For the exhibition “Home Smart Home,” Aram Bartholl equips the tower of the Kunstverein Rotenburg with a variety of home surveillance cameras. In addition to hidden cameras, known as “Nanny Cams,” Bartholl also experiments with 360° “Lightbulb” cameras equipped with lights and speakers. The market for surveillance cameras in the private sphere has grown tremendously in recent years. The desire for control over one’s own private space is reflected in this development and is part of the digitally driven society marked by a loss of trust.

The Art Tower, 4 Floors – 122 Steps – 24 m.
Originally slated for demolition in the mid-90s to make way for parking space for the “Ronolulu” leisure pool, the disused fire brigade water tower was on the chopping block. However, Peter Möhl, the former managing director of the municipal utilities and thus the owner of the tower, envisioned a meaningful repurposing. Together with the vice chairman of the Art Association, architect Jürgen Lohmann, the idea was born to convert the tower into a gallery.

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Decoding the Black Box

27. January – 2. June 2024
Group Show, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen

Die Ausstellung Decoding the Black Box bringt Künstlerinnen und Künstler zusammen, die Licht in diesen dunklen Raum und die Prozesse werfen, die sich in ihm ereignen. Sie legen dabei nicht nur die Funktionsweisen digitaler Technologien wie beispielsweise von künstlicher Intelligenz offen, sondern visualisieren zugleich die Auswirkungen, die sie auf unsere Wahrnehmung von Realität und unser In-der-Welt-Sein haben. Während sie die ökonomischen und machtpolitischen Strukturen der digitalen Technologien und insbesondere des Internets transparent machen, zeigen sie Gegenentwürfe für eine dezentralisierte, humanere und demokratischere Nutzung ebendieser auf.

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Upcoming Events

Urban Art Biennale

26. April – 10. November 2024
Biennial, Völklinger Hüttte, Saarbrücken

Recent Events

Killyourphone workshop

13. April 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Stitch Incoming!!

25. March 2024
Curatorial, Speed Show at Web Cafe, Athens

Monday 25th of March, 7:00 PM at Web Cafe, Eptanisou 40, 113 61 , Kypseli – Athens

with:
!Mediengruppe Bitnik with Selena Savić & Gordan Savičić , Ingrid Hideki, Joanna Bacas, Kyriaki Goni, Maria Mavropoulou, Marina Gioti, Marsunev, Nadja Buttendorf, Theo Triantafyllidis

Curated by Aram Bartholl & Socrates Stamatatos

Speed Show lands in Greece, the country of souvlaki, the sun (yes we can claim that they originated a celestial body), ouzo, feta, an enormous financial debt. Currently, Greece is also trending for all the wrong reasons namely, gentrification, queerphobia, state crimes and more dystopic incidents.
As 2024 unfolds, we find ourselves amidst a whirlwind of confusion, bombarded with a cacophony of online horrors to consume, an attention span further abbreviated by TikTok’s algorithm and the barrage of incoming stitches.

Stitches Incoming serve as a conduit for creators to engage and converse, traversing from one topic to the next. They have evolved into a new social fabric, weaving connections within an ever-shifting digital and physical landscape while also serving as a testament to personal and collective traumas, both past and present.

What unites the participating digital artists? Perhaps everything and nothing simultaneously… Departing from the traditional Speed Show setup, where artworks are carefully stacked inside internet cafe computers, and drawing inspiration from the structure of TikTok stitches, each piece seems to propel the conversation forward, or perhaps uses the next as a springboard for its own narrative.

Stitch this and stitch that, we have everything you ever wanted (maybe) ! Are we stuck in an infinite loop of sh*tposting, valuable content, the highlight of social issues, personal and interpersonal experiences?
Maybe! Come and find out…

More info on Speed Shows at https://speedshow.net/stitch-incoming/

Killyourphone workshop

23. March 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Killyourphone workshop

9. March 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Blog Archive for Month: May 2009

Wrong EXIF

May 14, 2009


Nice one! More pictures by Jürgen Hobarth, found at Hong Kong art fair.
Artist?

'POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTURE'

May 13, 2009


Sounds cool Christophe! Would love to see ….

C&H
[christophe meierhans
heike langsdorf
christoph ragg]

present:

POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTURE

Saturday 16 May 2009
14:47
Place d’Armes,
Metz, France

as part of Constellation, a prefiguration event for the Centre Pompidou-Metz

Postcards from the Future
Postcards from the Future makes use of postcards to immortalize daily urban scenes. These scenes are staged twice, with the help of hired extras. The first time, a daily life scene is simulated in order to take a picture of it which is later edited as a postcard. The postcard, printed and massively distributed throughout the city, functions as an invitation to a particular date and at a particular time, at the very same location where the picture has been taken. At the time indicated on the postcard, the second staging takes place. The exact same extras, with the exact same clothes reproduce the exact same scene, but this time without any picture being taken. Instead, they re-enact the situation which had produced the moment of the picture, and which, potentially, should contain that very same instant again.

Capturing the daily life of the city, a Postcards from the Future, does not intend to keep these elapsed situations as souvenirs, but transform their banality into the score of an expected performance. Going to the address indicated at exactly the indicated time makes you the privileged spectator of what each postcard is prophesying.

For the future Pompidou Center in Metz, C&H has realized three different postcards offering three different perspectives on the exact same location. All point towards the one exact same instant, 14h47 on saturday 16 May 2009.

DÖNER

May 12, 2009


(Quest: Which item does not fit into the collection?

I wish this was a public art piece …
found at Central Station, Bremen, DE)

Escape

May 11, 2009


(Someone installed an escape rope on the Berlin Wall. But hey dude! That is the wrong way! 😉 , found on Bernauerstr., Berlin)

3some

May 10, 2009

Random Screen, Paper Pixels and On at “Springt!” Bremen from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.

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From 8pm – 8am

May 8, 2009


(found close to Central Station, Bremen, DE … btw, this is not an art piece!…)

Graffiti and Graffiti

May 8, 2009


Unknown and Wow123 a.k.a. Markus Genesius at Kunstfrühling Bremen 2009.

Kunstfrühling Bremen

May 7, 2009


I am showing Paper Pixels, Random Screen and On at Artspring Bremen 2009. An old 180x80m train garage space is filled with all galleries and museums of the region of Bremen, plus a group show ‘springt!’ curated by Dirck Möllmann.

Opening tonight! 7 pm
Güterbahnhof, Bremen, DE
open 7.-25.5.2009

Diana M. Alonso, Aram Bartholl, Norbert Bauer und Ralf Tekaat, Achim Bertenburg, Achim Bitter, Katja Blum, Susanne Bollenhagen, Reinhold Budde, Claudia Christoffel, Derk Claassen, Irmgard Dahms, Stefan Demming, Harald Falkenhagen, Christiane Fichtner, Max Frisinger, Anja Fußbach, Herwig Gillerke, Christian Haake, Jutta Haeckel, Margrét Rós Harõardóttir, Marikke Heinz-Hoek, Rosa Jaisli, Annika Kahrs, Hanswerner Kirschmann, Martin Koroscha, Korpys / Löffler, Sandra Kuhne, Ralf Küster, Patricia Lambertus, Susanne Laufer, Veronika Maier, Achim Manz, mark, Daniela Marschall, Jub Mönster, Horst Müller, Cordula Prieser, Ina Raschke, Talal Refit, Felix Rehfeld, Preechaya Siripanich, Anna Solecka, Marina Steinacker und Susanne Katharina Willand, Kinki Texas, Mei-Shiu Winde-Liu, Christian Wolter

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Up side down

May 7, 2009


Nice one. Hmmm… still streetart? Found at Kunstfrühling Bremen

Hermann Stuzmann

Floor Object
2009
160 x 160 x 10 cm
Hard-Rubber, Aquarel

Gallery Gruppe Grün, Bremen, DE

Interface Luxury

May 7, 2009


Do you remember the days when each track had its own dedicated, direct access button? (Pioneer PD-S602)
I love it.

Hey Apple! We need a physical interface! I want to press and feel buttons! The iPhone totally destroyed the interface culture!
😉

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